Mitchell Adam "Mitch" Lucker (October 20, 1984 – November 1, 2012) was an American musician and lead singer for the deathcore band Suicide Silence.
With our last album ("No Time To Bleed"), we recorded most of it in New Jersey. And with being on the road 9 months a year, recording an album on the other side of the country- it just wasn't a good experience for us. All I wanted to do was go home and see my daughter, so for us to only be a couple hours away was huge- I could go home if I needed to.
You only live once, life is really short. . don't let anything minuscule like that keep you down. Keep your head up.
So many bands write about the same s -. It gets real boring after a while.
In 2008, we had barely put our first album out and a lot of people were unsure about us on that tour. But the crowds were insane to say the least.
I think the general population of people just don't think. It's actually proven that people just use the part of the brain they have to, to get through the day. They don't sit there and ponder over the big picture stuff.
Everything's filthy. But you know what? One day it's not gonna be here. So just be glad you know what life is. You're alive. Live.
At the time of starting this band I was listening to tons of death metal. However, the bands that made me want to be in a band to begin with were groups like Korn, Deftones, Slayer, Sepultura. . . everything that my dad would buy and bring home to me and my brother saying 'Hey, listen to this'.
I just want to be considered a heavy metal band, because metal has always been around and will always be around. We're just a heavier version of metal. Heavy metal will never go away. It's like a cockroach. It's the best title, because we play metal that's heavy.
Jon Davis of Korn and Frank Mullen of Suffocation are one of my favorite bands and from that moment, we started a conversation and lead to the song.
I think being a frontman is the greatest job and I get to do this every day.
The danger in it. Being a frontman in a band, you get addicted to adrenaline rushes.
Jon Davis was a fan and came out on stage with us somewhere in the Midwest and came out in a Suicide Silence shirt and a kilt and did his thing.
Keep listening to music, it gets you through everything. I promise.
To be honest, we're really nervous right now. It's our third album, so it's gotta be our best and biggest.
So many bands write about the same s - -. It gets real boring after a while. I want to keep it fresh and sign about things like the birth of my daughter, about seeing the world- things that aren't always said in metal.
This time, we went up to Big Bear for 3-4 weeks and sequestered ourselves writing this album [ "The Black Crown"].
We're just some little metal band.
I'd rather die riding 95 than live a life full of nothing but filthy lies.
It was really different this time, because we did everything in the studio and thought out the writing and song structures. Before this album ["The Black Crown"], we used to just write riff after riff and then worry about the rest of it later.
When I get home from touring, I need to find something to match that so I don't get my adrenaline withdrawals. Being exposed to every element of danger while you're sitting on a motor - that, to me, is freedom.